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Dispute Your Own Case and Don't Give In! This website describes the process, and HMRC’s own, biased, appeal process is far from the whole story! We have the Adjudicator, Ombudsman and legal action as 'lives' even after HMRC turn us down. Please make sure that we're not just disputing, we are COMPLAINING. The vast majority of us have not been treated properly even within the current unjust rules, and they need to know that we aren't just asking them to get off our backs, we are holding them accountable for their bad practice. The fewer people who are forced into repaying unjustly, and the more people who resist, the harder it becomes for HMRC and the government to maintain the system is just and we are all happy with it, and the more attractive an Amnesty will seem. As more and more complaints against HMRC are upheld, it will be clearer and clearer to those who are choosing not to notice it now that the system is failing us and will have to be changed. Let's get complaining and have them on the defensive for once! When writing or talking to your MP about your own case, this is often the ideal time to highlight the injustices in the whole system and to mention Tax Credits Casualties by name. You could ask your MP to make this a priority topic for Commons debate, and see if s/he would ask questions, raise or sign Early Day Motions (EDM's) supporting a fairer system, talk to Jane Kennedy (Financial Secretary to the Treasury) about the situation, etc. There are two EDM's at the moment that you could ask your MP to sign 'or thank them for supporting 545' (Julie Morgan, Labour) and 818 (David Laws, Lib Dem). There's some evidence that people whose MPs are prepared to write, and especially write often, to HMRC about a constituent's case get things cleared up quicker as HMRC seem adverse to extra work and a bad press. Please consider writing to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the ex-Chancellor who devised the tax credit system, and who, at every opportunity, still praises the tax credit system and regularly argues that it is generally working well. There are an awful lot of us suffering from the inadequacies of his system, and if his lack of action is due to an empty mailbag, we can easily put this right. He evidently needs to be told that there are not eight million blissfully happy claimants out there. Gordon Brown Or you could send the Prime Minister an e- mail. He doesn't read these, but they do get through to his office.
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Please note that we are not tax professionals and are working on a voluntary basis, unpaid, in our ‘free time’. Between us, we have a lot of experience and knowledge in this area, gained over the last few years of supporting victims and helping them fight for justice and their rights. But legislation, operating practice and individual cases change all the time. While we aim to be professional and accurate at all times, please understand the circumstances we are working under, and accept our support, guidance and information in the sprit it is offered; goodwill and camaraderie.
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